did the british prime minister wish he was here visiting the white house yesterday. in addition to that phonecall with president putin the other call that s getting a lot of attention today the chancellor of germany angela merkel. that had to be a little awkward given how critical their presence has been over immigration policy that the white house is the two leaders agreed upon the importance of nato notable since president trump has been critical of nato in the past and he looks forward to having her visit washington. julie: in between these phonecalls president trump also cited three executive actions today. tell us what they were. all three of them are really aimed at fulfilling to central campaign promises to drain the swamp and to defeat isis. the first would restructure the national security council and another would include a five-year ban on lobbying for all of officials and a lifetime ban for lobbying on foreign governments in the third would
obligations. one pundit said putin s goal and entering serious again local recognition is a great partner and not trump has expressed his desire to join forces in fighting terror in the middle east among other causes. the kremlin says the two also spoke about doubling business ties and russia s sovereign wealth fund to issue a statement the call saying they are going to present about 10 deals that have mutual whoppers and investment soon. the bottom line is the intention to have the need to stay in close touch. one of a things they will be talking about in subsequent phonecalls is the time and venue for their first meeting and we will see in the coming days and weeks and months whether all of these stated intentions meet with concrete results. julie: president trump not just
against russia in place and so did the british prime minister wish he was here visiting the white house yesterday. in addition to that phonecall with president putin the other call that s getting a lot of attention today the chancellor of germany angela merkel. that had to be a little awkward given how critical their presence has been over immigration policy that the white house is the two leaders agreed upon the importance of nato notable since president trump has been critical of nato in the past and he looks forward to having her visit washington. julie: in between these phonecalls president trump also cited three executive actions today. tell us what they were. all three of them are really aimed at fulfilling to central campaign promises to drain the swamp and to defeat isis. the first would restructure the national security council and another would include a five-year ban on lobbying for all of officials and a lifetime ban for lobbying on foreign
headquarters. with the present holding a number of phonecalls with world leaders most notably a call with russian leader blabbed vladimir putin marking the first time the president has spoken. the president speaking with leaders of japan and germany australia and france. kristin fisher joins us live at the white house with more on the busy day there behind you right kristin? always a busy day here at the white house under the trump administration or at least that s all we have seen so far. as soon as president trump signs these three executive actions he says that s big stuff. he believes they will begin fulfilling his campaign promise is two of them in fact defeat isis and to drain the swamp into that and the first one he signed as they plan to defeat isis and the second would restructure the white house national security council and the third would impose a five-year ban on lobbying for all administrative officials and a lifetime ban for
lobbing for government. this is a five-year ban i ve been talking about a lot on the campaign trail and we are now putting it into effect. [applause] one big question though is how that ban will be in force once president trump leaves office. president trump signs these executive actions in between phonecalls with five world leaders. his first phonecall this morning was the prime minister of japan and then the chancellor of germany, the president of russia and france and the prime minister of australia and the call getting the most attention of course is the one with russian president vladimir putin. we are still waiting for the white house to formally announce that was said during that call but the kremlin is saying both president trump and president putin agreed their number one priority is to unite their efforts to defeat isis. overall the kremlin describes the policy is one aimed at